S-ATA on Asus P4PE Promise Fastrack controller :-(

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

I bought a new 80GB S-ATA disk to use with my P4PE onboard Promise
Fastrack S-ATA controller, but I'm not gettings things to work :-(

The Promise flashes a "no array defined" error messages at boot and
the drive is not visible from Win 98se (drivers installed) or FDISK
(I plan to upgrade to WinXP as soon as I have the new drive working)

If I define a STRIPED array from the Promise BIOS setup the disk is
visible from Win98se or FDISK, but the size is only 12GB's :-((((((

(when creating a STRIP array I must choose STRIPE block size, what is
this, with only one disk it sin't really a STRIPED array, is it

So, HOW do I use the Promise Fastrack S-ATA controller as a regular
S-ATA controller with only one S-ATA disk connected? Please help!!

 

[tk]

Did you install the promise 378 ATA driver? I had 1 Seagate
160 SATA drive on the promise controller and it worked fine
until I bought another. Switched to Raid driver and changed to raid in bios
and has
worked like a charm in Windows XP SP2.

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

tk skrev:

Did you install the promise 378 ATA driver? I had 1 Seagate
160 SATA drive on the promise controller and it worked fine
until I bought another. Switched to Raid driver and changed to raid in bios

Got it working. Used another FDISK-like utilty to partition it.
Seem to work OK (old P-ATA 11MB/sec, new S-ATA 40 MB/sec

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

Now even if I got the S-ATA drive visible from DOS and Win98 (used
Ranish Partition Manager to make an active PRI FAT-32 partition) I can
boot from the S-ATA drive. I have formatted it from a floppy disk and
from WIn98se with system. And everything look OK, but when I set the
S-ATA as boot drive (I think I have set the options for the P4PE
right, but if anyone could brief me, plese do) no boot happends. That
is no "Starting Win98..." prompt. Just doesn't happend anything :-(

Now what is the problem? Why doesn't the bootloader start at all?
Is there something about the MBR and/or partitioning from Ranish?

The drive is visible (and useful) at full speed from Win98se (if I
boot from the old P-ATA disk that is), but not boot from S-ATA :-(

 

[Lars-Erik Østerud]

Lars-Erik Østerud skrev:

The drive is visible (and useful) at full speed from Win98se (if I
boot from the old P-ATA disk that is), but not boot from S-ATA :-(

OK, something with the MBR, I ran an FDISK /mbr on the new disk,
and after that it booted as it should (allthough some programs, like
Zonelarm and Avast, lost all configuration, even though the new disk
is a true copy of the old, why didn't the config survive the copy?)